Optics Inspection Analysis Software Developer
Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryBase Salary
$176k - $267k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze and document existing image-processing and analysis code written primarily in MATLAB, Perl, and Java.
- Reimplement and reengineer MATLAB image-processing routines in Python using libraries such as OpenCV and scikit-image.
- Develop unit tests, integration tests, performance benchmarks, and profiling-based optimizations.
- Maintain, enhance, document, and architect the modernized software codebase according to customer and project needs.
- Contribute to coding standards, testing frameworks, version-control workflows, and CI/CD practices.
- Research and recommend tools, utilities, libraries, and techniques that improve software development and analysis capabilities.
- Collaborate with team members, NIF scientists, stakeholders, and customers through requirements clarification, code reviews, and implementation validation.
- Mentor team members and collaborators in Python, software development best practices, and modern engineering techniques.
- At the SES.4 level, provide technical direction and leadership for image processing, software architecture, technical strategy, and software engineering practices.
Requirements
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance and U.S. citizenship.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.
- Significant software development experience using Python 3 as the primary development language and advanced knowledge of Python fundamentals and idiomatic practices.
- Significant image-processing or signal-processing experience in Python using libraries such as OpenCV, scikit-image, NumPy, SciPy, and Pandas.
- Advanced knowledge of MATLAB programming and the ability to understand MATLAB code and document its functionality.
- Advanced experience implementing automated unit and integration testing, along with significant experience in code profiling and performance optimization.
- Advanced verbal and written communication skills for collaboration and explanation of technical information to technical and non-technical audiences.
- For SES.4, highly advanced Python and software-development experience with large, complex systems; expert-level technical direction, coding standards, workflows, technology evaluation, and stakeholder communication.
- Master’s degree in a relevant field is preferred.
- Prior experience reengineering a large software project into a new language and architecture is preferred.
- Experience with SQL and Oracle, Git-based forges such as GitLab, GitHub, or Bitbucket, CI/CD pipelines, or Docker is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule with the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week.
- Flexible benefits package.
- 401(k) plan.
- Relocation assistance.
- Education reimbursement program.
- Flexible schedules depending on project needs.
- Career Indefinite position open to laboratory employees and external candidates.
- The role requires a DOE Q-level security clearance, Federal background investigation, and post-offer pre-employment drug test.
About Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, located in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a premier applied science laboratory that is part of the National Nuclear Security Administration within the Department of Energy. LLNL's mission is strengthening national security by developing and applying cutting-edge science, technology, and engineering that respond with vision, quality, integrity, and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. The Laboratory's science and engineering are being applied to achieve breakthroughs for counterterrorism and nonproliferation, defense and intelligence, energy and environmental security. The world-class programs and capabilities at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory span one square mile, what many consider to be "the smartest square mile on Earth."